The problem is that this is only really guarding against hardware failure. The reason I use tape drives at work is that most of the restores you need to do are because someone deleted something important & then a couple of weeks later someone else discovers the loss. With a single media system you don't get to keep a history. The individual tapes are cheap enough that you can keep history stretching back months.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't tools like lock picks & even bolt cutters treated a bit differently than other tools? It was always my understanding that if you were carrying these tools for no good reason (ie, you're not a locksmith) you could be arrested for suspicion of burglary. You could probably extend this analogy to network sniffing tools - ie, if you're not a network administrator you shouldn't have them. I don't know that this is the case, but that's what I've thought.
I work in a small business environment, and, much as I like Linux as a server, I'm not going to be putting it on desktops anytime soon. Win4Lin isn't going to work for me - if I have to buy a licenced copy of Windows anyway, I'm just going to run that. Yeah, 98 sucks, but 2K is fine - I can leave my 2k desktop running all week with no crashing. Most small businesses I've dealt with don't use just Office & e-mail, there's often an industry specific app that they're wedded to, & it's usually for Windows only. It just doesn't make sense to jump through too many hoops to get away from that.
It seems to me that the control of these characters has to get away from traditional animation & more towards puppetry. To get good movements etc, a real actor could control all the movements with the CG character being essentially a mask. I'm thinking of a sort of vr situation, whith the results saved & edited. The role of actors would be changed, but the skills would still be needed.
I used to work at an art supply store, & whenever we had to ship anything breakable we triple packed it. We'd roll a cart out to give the ups guy a hand, & whenever he saw our FRAGILE stickers on a box he'd pick it up & wing it to the end of the truck. Said it was just to let us know how it was going to be treated from here on out...
Well, it seems Amazon was switching from a UNIX, not from MS, so the numbers don't apply to MS at all. Though I'd assume that the Linux option would be cheaper than an MS one.
As others have noted, install 98, 2000, & then Linux. Grub does great; I use Mandrake at home in just this config, and the reason I used Grub in the first place was that a couple of years ago (it's probably changed now) LILO wouldn't boot to a partition beyond the first 8GB or so. Grub would, & I've been using it ever since. So I have a small 98 partition, a large NTFS one, & then a medium Linux install. On boot, you see grub & if you choose windows, you get the NT loader, where you can choose 98 or 2K.
I think that the main attraction of my digital camera is that it has an lcd to let you look at the photos right away. It's the same attraction as a Polaroid. A digital camera without an lcd is much less attractive, and is really no better than a disposable 35mm...
I'm sure I've seen another device advertised where, once you realize it's a telemarketer, you hit a button & it delivers a recorded "Put us on your don't call list" speech. You still would have to answer though. I think it was around $20 or so...
I'm happy with mine. And at 128 I can't honestly tell the difference between the MP3 & the source cd in my jukebox, and this despite the fact that the audio is going from the player to the tv & back to the amp. Of course, my system is not in an optimal configuration right now, and I have a tin ear...
Personally, I'd spend the extra $30 & get a proven PDA. That seems a lot easier to justify than $100 on some unknown with what sounds like a clunky interface.
This is the first I've heard of this, how does it compare to e-smith? It seems like it doesn't have the extras, but might be great for straight firewalling.
The Red Cross is overwhelmed by donors right now (at least here in DC). Wait until tomorrow or the next day.
I'm not eligible, due to having lived in the UK & fears of mad cow, even though I'm a vegetarian...
I use VNC all the time & love it, but a screen scraper app is different from one which can allow multiple simultaneous sessions. Only one VNC user can control the Windows desktop at a time. I agree that it's funny they overlooked Metaframe though.
I'm a Speakeasy customer too, and I'd hate to lose my connection, but I'm not willing to pay more than I am now. $700 a year is plenty for the luxury of fast access & a vanity site I could put on a number of other boxes... I'd get a dialup account again if they raised their prices, or even go with Verizon, though I too had a nightmare with them before going with Speakeasy.
I was just musing on this this morning - RAM is so cheap, if someone made an affordable interface/battery/DIMM socket housing that you could load up with DIMMs it'd be way cool...
My understanding is that Google ranks highest links which are from sites which are themselves linked from lots of sites, so this might have some use. At the very least it'll help everything get indexed.
VCRs aren't "tolerated" by the TV industry - the courts have upheld them as fair use. They're stuck with VCRs, but they'd like to make sure that newer tech doesn't kill their ad revenue.
Personally, I am happy reading books on my Palm. I guess I've read about 20-30 novels, mostly from memoware.com, some gutenberg texts that I've converted myself. It's not what I read at home, but when I have some downtime at work or I'm travelling, or when I'm sitting in the car with a sleeping baby it's great to have a couple of books on hand. The screen could be better, but I haven't had any problems with eyestrain. Dedicated units & proprietary formats don't do it for me.
The thing is, you can't stop people from getting fast connections, and you can't force them to secure their machines. So even if your system is set up well, you're still vulnerable to these types of attacks. It's not the people who have "left the door open" who are really being victimized - they probably barely notice the use of their bandwidth.
The problem is for $150 you can buy a router that does masqing, DHCP, portforwarding etc AND is a 4 port 10/100 switch, is smaller, quieter and uses less power. Don't get me wrong, I have a 486 running e-smith (which I can't praise highly enough, BTW) for my home network access, but for Joe User one of these little devices is the way to go.
I second that. Sure, sometimes I have to come in for a few hours on the weekend, but there's no way I'm staying till 8 every night. I'm lucky too, I actually get comp time. I like my job, but I'd rather be with my wife & daughter (and, re. above, I HAVE been married 7 years;o))
A couple of years ago I looked into using LRP & my old parallel port QuickCam in a laptop. The cqcam app worked fine, and I remember that there was another little app (here's one that looks like it'd work - http://ic.net/~craig/pmcam/ )that would let you superimpose the date & time & a title on any image. My problem was the old laptop wouldn't boot LRP, but I bet you could get it to work. I imagine the hard part would be getting a parallel port cam now, most are usb.
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The problem is that this is only really guarding against hardware failure. The reason I use tape drives at work is that most of the restores you need to do are because someone deleted something important & then a couple of weeks later someone else discovers the loss. With a single media system you don't get to keep a history. The individual tapes are cheap enough that you can keep history stretching back months.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't tools like lock picks & even bolt cutters treated a bit differently than other tools? It was always my understanding that if you were carrying these tools for no good reason (ie, you're not a locksmith) you could be arrested for suspicion of burglary. You could probably extend this analogy to network sniffing tools - ie, if you're not a network administrator you shouldn't have them. I don't know that this is the case, but that's what I've thought.
Well, I heard that there are only two manufacturers in the black right now, Dell & Apple, so they're already "back" in that sense...
I work in a small business environment, and, much as I like Linux as a server, I'm not going to be putting it on desktops anytime soon. Win4Lin isn't going to work for me - if I have to buy a licenced copy of Windows anyway, I'm just going to run that. Yeah, 98 sucks, but 2K is fine - I can leave my 2k desktop running all week with no crashing. Most small businesses I've dealt with don't use just Office & e-mail, there's often an industry specific app that they're wedded to, & it's usually for Windows only. It just doesn't make sense to jump through too many hoops to get away from that.
It seems to me that the control of these characters has to get away from traditional animation & more towards puppetry. To get good movements etc, a real actor could control all the movements with the CG character being essentially a mask. I'm thinking of a sort of vr situation, whith the results saved & edited. The role of actors would be changed, but the skills would still be needed.
I used to work at an art supply store, & whenever we had to ship anything breakable we triple packed it. We'd roll a cart out to give the ups guy a hand, & whenever he saw our FRAGILE stickers on a box he'd pick it up & wing it to the end of the truck. Said it was just to let us know how it was going to be treated from here on out...
Well, it seems Amazon was switching from a UNIX, not from MS, so the numbers don't apply to MS at all. Though I'd assume that the Linux option would be cheaper than an MS one.
As others have noted, install 98, 2000, & then Linux. Grub does great; I use Mandrake at home in just this config, and the reason I used Grub in the first place was that a couple of years ago (it's probably changed now) LILO wouldn't boot to a partition beyond the first 8GB or so. Grub would, & I've been using it ever since. So I have a small 98 partition, a large NTFS one, & then a medium Linux install. On boot, you see grub & if you choose windows, you get the NT loader, where you can choose 98 or 2K.
I think that the main attraction of my digital camera is that it has an lcd to let you look at the photos right away. It's the same attraction as a Polaroid. A digital camera without an lcd is much less attractive, and is really no better than a disposable 35mm...
I'm sure I've seen another device advertised where, once you realize it's a telemarketer, you hit a button & it delivers a recorded "Put us on your don't call list" speech. You still would have to answer though. I think it was around $20 or so...
I'm happy with mine. And at 128 I can't honestly tell the difference between the MP3 & the source cd in my jukebox, and this despite the fact that the audio is going from the player to the tv & back to the amp. Of course, my system is not in an optimal configuration right now, and I have a tin ear...
Personally, I'd spend the extra $30 & get a proven PDA. That seems a lot easier to justify than $100 on some unknown with what sounds like a clunky interface.
This is the first I've heard of this, how does it compare to e-smith? It seems like it doesn't have the extras, but might be great for straight firewalling.
The Red Cross is overwhelmed by donors right now (at least here in DC). Wait until tomorrow or the next day.
I'm not eligible, due to having lived in the UK & fears of mad cow, even though I'm a vegetarian...
I use VNC all the time & love it, but a screen scraper app is different from one which can allow multiple simultaneous sessions. Only one VNC user can control the Windows desktop at a time. I agree that it's funny they overlooked Metaframe though.
I'm a Speakeasy customer too, and I'd hate to lose my connection, but I'm not willing to pay more than I am now. $700 a year is plenty for the luxury of fast access & a vanity site I could put on a number of other boxes... I'd get a dialup account again if they raised their prices, or even go with Verizon, though I too had a nightmare with them before going with Speakeasy.
I second this - e-smith are way cool. If you ever need a quick NAT/Mail/Web server, check them out.
I was just musing on this this morning - RAM is so cheap, if someone made an affordable interface/battery/DIMM socket housing that you could load up with DIMMs it'd be way cool...
My understanding is that Google ranks highest links which are from sites which are themselves linked from lots of sites, so this might have some use. At the very least it'll help everything get indexed.
VCRs aren't "tolerated" by the TV industry - the courts have upheld them as fair use. They're stuck with VCRs, but they'd like to make sure that newer tech doesn't kill their ad revenue.
Personally, I am happy reading books on my Palm. I guess I've read about 20-30 novels, mostly from memoware.com, some gutenberg texts that I've converted myself. It's not what I read at home, but when I have some downtime at work or I'm travelling, or when I'm sitting in the car with a sleeping baby it's great to have a couple of books on hand. The screen could be better, but I haven't had any problems with eyestrain. Dedicated units & proprietary formats don't do it for me.
The thing is, you can't stop people from getting fast connections, and you can't force them to secure their machines. So even if your system is set up well, you're still vulnerable to these types of attacks. It's not the people who have "left the door open" who are really being victimized - they probably barely notice the use of their bandwidth.
The problem is for $150 you can buy a router that does masqing, DHCP, portforwarding etc AND is a 4 port 10/100 switch, is smaller, quieter and uses less power. Don't get me wrong, I have a 486 running e-smith (which I can't praise highly enough, BTW) for my home network access, but for Joe User one of these little devices is the way to go.
I second that. Sure, sometimes I have to come in for a few hours on the weekend, but there's no way I'm staying till 8 every night. I'm lucky too, I actually get comp time. I like my job, but I'd rather be with my wife & daughter (and, re. above, I HAVE been married 7 years ;o))
A couple of years ago I looked into using LRP & my old parallel port QuickCam in a laptop. The cqcam app worked fine, and I remember that there was another little app (here's one that looks like it'd work - http://ic.net/~craig/pmcam/ )that would let you superimpose the date & time & a title on any image. My problem was the old laptop wouldn't boot LRP, but I bet you could get it to work. I imagine the hard part would be getting a parallel port cam now, most are usb.